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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7, 1921.
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"MER WORT" VANILONS.
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BENTLEY'S
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MERCURY MOTOR CAR CRAL OFFICE
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HONGKONG.
MAIN BRANCH & BAD Book
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BRANCH?
WEST POINT BRANCH 1543 WORK SCOP
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ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
Sea Floor Paintings
GENERAL ITEMS.
A Paris specialist says a milk die renders the system liable to influenza and pneumonia,
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So great was the throng of bathers at Ostend one Sunday in mail week that 5,105 tickets were issued.
The loss in tramway-car receipts in
Liverpool during the cozl stoppage was between £50,000 and £60,000.
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TOBACCO SMUGGLING.
THE NEW INDUSTRY.
Revenue officers searched the sa "Haifuka Maru," a Japanese coal steamer on her arrival in port yesterday afternoon and seized 14,000
THE CHINA MAIL.
WOPING MURDER.
THIRD DAY OF TRIAT
AN ESTHONIAN VAGRANT."
NOTICES,
Estorian before Magistrate EVENING DRESS
Sergt. Stimson yesterday charged THE PINK TICKET,
Lindsell with being a vagrant. The DEMONSTRATIONS IN DETECTION. defendant arrived here by the "Empire State" on August 29, and This morning's proceedings at the cigarettes and 32 lbs of tobacco which Waping Theatre murder trial resol came ashore en the following day were contained in parcels strewn ved themselves into a series of without hindrance. He had intended about the deck. Enquiries faved
demonstrations in connection with to proceed to Shanghai, but was dis to establish the Identity
which a pink theatre ticket, a coat | covered by the Captain when he re- the of
person
placed who the contraband on board. The com-
and a bamboð gate were the princi- turned to the ship. The defendant pany could not be prosecuted, as the cal properties employed. Again the admitted that he had no money and cigarettes and tobacco were not con-
Court was crowded with Chinese | no means of subsistence. He wanted whose interest stems to wax to go to Shanghai to seek employ ccaled. The theory is that the con
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the trial wears ment traband was brought aboard by ceal
The shipping company was coolies and deposited on the deck. Heif a dozen European ladies prepared to take him to that port, he to await opportunity to smuggle it kept up a whispered commentary asserted, but could not issue a pass. into the hold. The cigarettes and upon the evidence from a seat just age ticket until after four days. Mr. tobacco were brought ashore and behind the Press bench and there King, D.3.P.. asked that defendant, be removed to the Import and Export was a uniformed soldier in the body committed to the House of Detention office for confiscation.
of the Court. Yeung Ko, the prisoner til then. The necessary order was was again the individual who dis- made. played outwardly the least interest in the proceedings. He kept bis gaze fixed on a point somewhere about the centre of the lawyer's table everyone else watched with absorbed and never shifted-it even when
interest a witness's theatrical representation of himself chasing Yeung Ko over the bamboo gate,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Through an advertisement in this issue, the Kowloon Residents' Association urge Committee of the
members of their association to siga the popular government petition.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE.
An exhibition of paintings at the Paris Galeries Georges Palit consists entirely of exhibits painted by Mr. Zarh Pritchard under water. Mr.j Pritchard did not employ a glass diving bell or any apparatus of such 2 complicated nature: he merely donned an ordinary diver's suit, and
A Worcester china dinner service taking with him his easel, canvas, and colours, established himself on of 164 pieces fetched 925 guineas at A. Mutton, at No. 9, Queen's Road C. E. Tavares, V. F. V. Ribeiro, R. S. under the personal management of MR. the sea bortom ard painted fer half the sale at Stowe House, Bucking
an hour at a time at a depth of over sixty feet. Mr. Pritchard left his painting under water until such time;
hamshire.
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"He cheals at billiards and cards,"
According to an advertisement in this issue, the Far East Employment Agency will be operated under the personal management of Mr. Chas.
Central.
Thomas Kirk was last night
behaviour at the King Edward Hotel. He was released on bail of $15. When the case was called this morning, he failed to appear and bail was estreated.
The Acting Chief. Justice (Mr. H. TRE H. J. Gompertz) presided and the Eployment Department of jury of seven was composed of the be operated under the title of THE this Company wil, in the fature, following Robert Gray (foreman, FAR EAST EMPLOYMENT AGENCY Judah, J. J. Gutierrez, E. M. Xavier OHAS. A. SUTTON, at No 9, Queen's and D. J. Cuthill
Road Central (Entrance In House The Attorney-General (Hon. Mr. St) Exporters Cooperative Co, Ltd.
Crown case.
KOWLOON RESIDENTS
as it was finished, and he found that said a woman at Kingston Police/arrested by the police for discrderly J. H. Kemp KC) conducted the (Tacorporated in Hongkong.) the salt water in no way affected Court when asked what her husband's the colouring. The paintings are for occupation was, the most part studies of under-water scenes near Tahiti, with wonderful! sea plants, coral, and strange fisher. One or two of the paintings, however, were executed off the roast of Scos
land.
£5 For Dancing Round A Tomb Thousands of people at St. Ives Cornwall, watched the quaint cere- many attendant on a bequest made by the late John Knili, for 30 years; collector of Customs at the port.
Mt. Kaill settled upon the mayor and residents for ever an annuity of £10 and ordered that every five years certain gifts should be made. These; include:
5. equally divided, between 10 girls, not over 10 years, who dance around his mausoleum for a quarter of an hour and afterwards sing the "Old Hundredth";
£1 to a 'ddler to play on that cccasion;
£2 to two widows, not less than 64 who accompany the girls;
£1 for white ribbon fer the airis. women, and fiddler;
£5 to 2 man and his wife over 60 who have reared to the age of 10 and upwards the greatest number of legitimate children without parish relief.
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Herr Hugo Stinnes, the German industrial and newspaper magnate, was injured in a motor car collision near Wiesbaden.
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Motoring through the streets of Homberg, a Frankfort merchant ran over and fatally injured a boy, whom he found to be his own son.
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The Royal College of Surgeons is trying to collect material for a basis for a complete physical history of the inhabitants of the British Isles.
After being pricked by a thistle on the forearm while working on a hayrick, John Thompson, farm labourer, died in Hull Infirmary.
About 400,000 pilchards have been caught by the Cornish fishermen this season, and the curing houses have had to take on additional workers.
A 7-year old Chinese girl was yesterday afternoon knocked down motor car No. 315 in Barclay Street, Kowloon. She received a small cut on the back of the bead. The injury was so slight that the child did not even go to the hospital for treatment.
Mr. E. A. M. Williams) Special Manager of the Banque Industrielle de Chine, invites tenders for the pur- chase of 4 V.D. Anderson motor driven expeller oil plants and other accessories complete, also one wooden lighter "Wo Lee" equipped with oil
tanks.
Charged with having sold fresh pork, the proprietor of a shop licenced to sell roast meat onis, told Magistrate Lindsell this morning that the pork was sold to a woman by a Private "wireless stations" in foki who was new from the country France, including even the simplest and did not know the regulations. A receiving apparatus of a schoolbay fine of $25 was imposed. amateur, are to be taxed 10 fraces (normally 8. 4d.) a year.
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Two tourists have reached the £5 to the best knitter of fishing nets. summit of the Monch, the 13.465ft. One wides of 83, Aan Hoskings, peak near the Jungfran, in 15 hours: two ascending by a new and very difficult who took part, danced on prericus occasions. The best knit- route over the Eiger glacier. ting award was divided between two)
women of 92 and 70 respectively.
A Remarkable Murder Charge.
A crime of the most unnatural and
reached.
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ASSOCIATION,
The Chinese detective who is the principal witness against the prisoner and who gave evidence yesterday afternoon that when the shot was fred in the theatre he saw some thing smoking in Yeung Ko's THE COMMITTEE of the. Kowloor hand, pursued him, and finally Residents' Association respectfully captured him after a strenuous chase arge the members of their Asacciation morning by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, theel for popular representation in the was lengthily cross-examined this to sign the petition now being circalat prisoner's counsel.
Government of the Colony.
F. T. WHEELER,
President.
Kowloon, September 7, 1521.
LIMITED.
Mr. Jenkin began by handing the detective a photograph of a police parade at the central station on 30 occasion when meda's were presented. At that parade, the witness agreed, certain Chinese, detectives were decorated HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY. and he knew that in some cases the medals were given to men who bad secured convictions. "Have you got a medal?" Counsel queried. "No, not yet" the detective apewered. It did
with reference to the Special not follow, he explained, that because Reaolution passed and confirmed at EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL a man secured convictions he would necessarily get a medal. He himself MEETINGS of the bore Company had been responsible for many arrests held on the 13th and 3lat days of but his medal had not yet come along. August 1921, regarding the division of But you live in hopes," counsel from shares of the denomination of $50 the above Company's share capital suggested.
or less."
completed by 8.30 p.m. With the tion to search it again. was immediately resumed
coat
Counsel: No police officer could have searched that coat and missed that ticket could be?
Witness. No, you car itbat.
assume
Were you present in the detective office when that ticket was found for the first time on Monday mor ring?
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
each into shares of the denomination
FOR THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
COMPANY, LIMITED.
H. N. BEAUREPAIRE,
Secretary. Hongkong, September 7, 1991.
OIL PLANTS & LIGHTER FOR SALE.
Replying to other questions fired of 810 each. in order to esable such at him by Mr. Jenkin the witness said Special Resolutions to be carried into The following forthcoming mat- he had been detective for two of effect, it is accessary that shareholders riages have been announced: Mr. three years. Asked if he knew his should forthwith forward to the under M. W. Lo, soliciter, to Miss Margaret duties well be replied that he "did signed the Share Certificates in respect Huag; Mr. F. E, Lawrence of 44A. not know them thoroughly but knew of their respective holdings of shares Florence Frickett; and Mr. A. G. how to search. "Then" said counsel the undersigned will, upon receipt of Nathan Road, Kowloon, to Miss them more
He knew in the Company in exchange wherefor
Fieldgate, electrical engineering handing up a Chinese short coat euch Share Certificates, forward to the dranghtsman to Miss Theodora Mary
'I want you to assume that a mas respective holders thereof written Tonkin en route from England by has been arrested for murder and to scknowledgments of the receipt thereof. Since the United States authorities the s.s. "Sardinia."
search this coat for clues." Running have enforced the new immigration
When the new Certificates in respect hands through the coat in a of the division of the shares into shares rules thousands of emigrants are The remains of two Chinese business-like fashion the detective of the denomination of $10 each as i horrible nature is is possible to im- being held up at Cherbourg on sc- women, aged 41 and 61 years, res declared that there was nothing in it aforesaid are ready, Notice thereof
count of the monthly quota being pectively, were removed from the "Very wall" said agine is alleged casinst a Bretoni
Mr. Jenkin will be given to shareholdes and ach mother, Mme. Niquet. The woman
rebris on the ground floor of No. " now turn your back." The witness new Certificates will be obtainable by is charged with the murder of one son i About 20,000 artificial reeth, and a 313, Queen's Road West, soon after complied and Mr. Jenkin then shareholders upon application to the and the attempted murder of another. quantity of scrap gold and platinum, completed in the afternoon, and a packet of the coat and after gistered Office in the Hongkong Hotel, a.m., yesterday. Shering work was slipped a pink theatre ticket into undersigned at the Company's Regis It is said that the woman is a widow valued at £400, were stolen from the the work of removing the debris the witness bad faced around handed Pedder Street, Victoria Hongkons, in and had two sons--one fourteen and
premises of Mr. David Mistlin, the other nice. She wished to that, dentist, St. John's-road, Battersea,
and the garment up to him with a direc exchange for the above mentioned.
Robbing acknowledgments. again, but her suitor refused to ur-
S.W.
recovery of these two bodies, all the the
through dertake the charge of her family. To
his hande Dated this Seventh day of Septem please him she is alleged to have!
missing have been accounted for. the witness beard the rustle of paper ber, 1921. taken out her younger boy and Whereas before the war about a A male Chinese, aged 62 years, died and drew out the ticket. It was, pushed him over one of it lofty third of France's babies were nursed at the Government Civil Hospital last he said, a ticket for the Woping) cliffs near Brest. The body was by their mothers, statistics show that might as the result of severe injuries Theatre for August 16. never found. Later, to complete ber 90 per cent, are now bottle-fed, with received in the collapse. This brings horrid plan, it is alleged that she a great increase of infantile mor- the total of dead to six. The other took out the eldest son fer a holiday.tality.
people in the hospital are making and made her way with him to the
good re- cavery. Feeling is running high at Lodz, same spot where his brother had perished. On the way she stumbled where bitter strikes are proceeding. A Chinese boy attending school against him and he narrowly escaped Well-dressed persons are hardly safe at No. 111, Canton Road, Yaumati, death from passing tramcar. in the streets. Men wearing collars has reported to the district police that When they got to the cliff she again, are liable to be hustled off the pave about 6.45 yesterday evening, he says the charge, brushed against him, ment by groups of strikers.
and cook boy were in the above No. sending him tumbling OVET the
address during the master's absence, That ticket was planted in that TENDERS are invited for the car- Aeroplanes numbering 178, carry when a knock came on the door. pocket
chase of 4 V. D. ANDERSON brink. A strong boy, be clutched the grass as he fell, and after a ing 790 passengers, arrived at and The cook boy asked who was there, there on Monday morning by some MOTOR DRIVEN EXPELLER OIL and other accessories terrible struggle succeeded in climb. departed from Le Bourget, the airport and a voice asked for the master. body.
Do you know any thing PLANTS the His information outside Paris, in mail week, compared When
cook ing
compléta, also ore said about it?
wooden Lighter brought the present trial, which is with 125 machines and 344 passengers that the master was not in the house, Whether that ticket has been "WO LEE" equipped with oil tanks, being followed with intense interest in the corresponding week of 1920,
the voice said that there was an planted in the pocket of that jacket carrying capacity about 125 tons in. Brittany.
important letter to deliver. When I do not know. Spoonerisms.
Tenders must be sent in sealed enve- A statement to the milkman that the cook boy opened the door, threa Afterwards Mr. Jenkin questioned Dr. W. A. Spooner, from whose milk was no longer wanted as she men rushed in. They carried the the witness searchingly about the lopes marked on the onuide Tender for
"Oil Plant" or "Wooden Lighter name the word spoonerism" is had killed her child was, the first boys to the kitchen where they events in the theatre and the sub- derived, celebrated his 77th birthday intimation of a murder at Denain, gagged and bound them, and then sequent pursuit. With Mr. Jenkin as the case may he and must be ad- in mail werk. Most people have Nord Department, where a young ransacked the premises, and stole acting as stage director and two dressed to the undersigned before the 14th day of September 1991. The heard of him as the perpetrator of woman strangled her child in a fit of from the schoolinaster's room $58 in police inspectors as scene-shifters Special Manager does not bind himself
blunders rage.
the identical tamboo some humorous verbal
was then tugged across a space be
10 accept the highest or the lowest rather than as Warden of New Col
tender. Io explanation of a bill for £16 A Chinese was lege, Oxford.
this morning tween a corner of the dock and the
The undersigned does not warrant or The story of his search for the for whisky for sick borses, it was charged before Magistrate Lindsell end of the Press table and the de Dull Man" at Greenwich instead of stated at a meeting of the London with having landed a dog from the tective demonstrated to the Court just guarrates the above description in any wey, but inspection and details concern. the "Green Man" at Dulwich is Court of Common Council that the Wuchow steamer "Taiming," without tow it all happened.
The next witness was a Chinese ing the Oil Plant & Lighters will be known the world over, and such spirit was only given at the instance a permit from the Colonial Veterinary constable who described how, when giren to bona fide purchasers on ap transpositions 29 'shoving of the reterinary surgeon and was Surgeon. Inspector Wills said that
the andermentioned leopard" for the "loving shepherd." kept locked up by the horsekeeper. the defendant brought the dog ashore station last Monday morning, the
searching a coat at the police plication at and his statement that he must
without the knowledge of the police. day the trial began, he found
E. A. M. WILLIAMS, instantly return. from London to Near the Palace Pier, Brighton, The matter was discovered the follow-the pink theatre ticket previously
Special Manager. Oxford by the town drain (down two men entered the water nude, and ing day when be took the dog to the referred to in the breast pocket of BASQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE COINE, train) are classics. Talking to a re-when a constable went and spoke to porter. Dr. Spooner modeally denied them they are stated to have assault-No. 7, Station to get a licence. He the garment. He was, he told Bir.
5. Chater Road. the fatherhood of most of these jokes, ed him. He called for help and more was questioned and admitted that he Jenkin in cross-examination, sur-
Hongkong, September 7, 1921. and 'pretested that one of the few officers arrived, forcibly dressed the had imported it from Wuchow. The prised when he found it. He was "Epsonerisms" he could remember men, and took them to the police police had communicated with the not among-the party that went to the making was bis perversion of the station.
C.V.S. but the latter did not want to prisoner's boarding first line of the well-known hymn
press the charge because this was the brought back a basket of clothing. Many women were among the 500 first offence.since the new regulation The case is proceeding. into "kinquering congs their tikles
was introduced. The dog had been
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tate.” · He said be believed his fame | persons who entered a competition
boy
money and clothing worth $14.50.
as a spoonerism-maker was originally at a church fele at Hounslow, examined and was reported to be
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it was found
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Traffic can Dow go through due to some facetious remarks in Middlesex, to find the fastest speaker" The Magistrate decided that Pokfulam Road as far as the loop at Punch about the sermons he de The winner was Mr. H. J. Niss, of the fact that the defendant-had taken Elliott Battery, ligered in New College Chapel Most Hounslow, who managed to repeat,
the dog to be kivered stood in he spoonerisms he attributed to the the words Some fountain pe 781
One case of enteric lever, fertile miods of irreverent under times in 30 seconds, being a rate of favour and imposed a nominal fine of Chinese, and one of paratyphoid fever, graduates,
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